location of cdrom

location of cdrom

[dannyboy]

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My floppy is /dev/fd0 and the hard drive's linux is on /dev/hda5.  How is a cdrom accessed with linux?  Do I need to mount that drive?  Is there a way to fix it so I do not have to mount the floppy after logging on all the time?

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Re: location of cdrom

[Gregory Nowak]

Type:
"dmesg |more"
without the quotes.
Look at the resulting output to see what your cd-rom drive is.
Here's an example from my main box.
hda: FUJITSU MPD3064AT, ATA DISK drive
hdb: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9100, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: IOMEGA ZIP 250 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
hde: FUJITSU MPF3204AT, ATA DISK drive
In the above, hdb is my cd-rom drive
before the ide-scsi emulation driver starts on my system.
hdx would probably be where your drive is. Hth.
Greg


On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 05:46:47PM -0500, dannyboy wrote:
> My floppy is /dev/fd0 and the hard drive's linux is on /dev/hda5.  How is a cdrom accessed with linux?  Do I need to mount that drive?  Is there a way to fix it so I do not have to mount the floppy after logging on all the time?

Re: location of cdrom

[Thomas Ward]

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Hi, under Red Hat there is a soft link for the cdrom in /mnt/cdrom.
So for me I type mount /mnt/cdrom and the drive gets loaded.
The easiest whay to know where your cdrom is to see if it is on the primary or secondary controler. Typically, the cdrom is the first drive on the secondary controler which is /dev/hdc.
If you want a drive such as a zip to automatically mount on startup add it to your /etc/rc.local file if using Red Hat.
For me I enter the line:
mount /mnt/zip100.0/
in /etc/rc.local, and my zip drive is always loaded on startup.
However, something like a floppy isn't good to load on startup, because it is unlikely there is a floppy in the drive on startup as with my zip drive.
What you might do is create an alias in your /etc/bashrc file called floppy, and type that command and it will mount it for you.
For example on my Red Hat box I have an alias line like this:


alias loadfd= 'mount /mnt/floppy/'



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: dannyboy 
  To: speakup 
  Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 5:46 PM
  Subject: location of cdrom


  My floppy is /dev/fd0 and the hard drive's linux is on /dev/hda5.  How is a cdrom accessed with linux?  Do I need to mount that drive?  Is there a way to fix it so I do not have to mount the floppy after logging on all the time?

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Re: location of cdrom

[Guy Schlosser]

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How would you do this under Debian?  I looked for rc.local, and don't seem 
to have one.  I have an NTFS partition that I would like to have mounted 
everytime I boot into Linux.

Thanks,


Guy
At 08:15 PM 12/14/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi, under Red Hat there is a soft link for the cdrom in /mnt/cdrom.
>So for me I type mount /mnt/cdrom and the drive gets loaded.
>The easiest whay to know where your cdrom is to see if it is on the 
>primary or secondary controler. Typically, the cdrom is the first drive on 
>the secondary controler which is /dev/hdc.
>If you want a drive such as a zip to automatically mount on startup add it 
>to your /etc/rc.local file if using Red Hat.
>For me I enter the line:
>mount /mnt/zip100.0/
>in /etc/rc.local, and my zip drive is always loaded on startup.
>However, something like a floppy isn't good to load on startup, because it 
>is unlikely there is a floppy in the drive on startup as with my zip drive.
>What you might do is create an alias in your /etc/bashrc file called 
>floppy, and type that command and it will mount it for you.
>For example on my Red Hat box I have an alias line like this:
>
>
>alias loadfd= 'mount /mnt/floppy/'
>
>
>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: <mailto:dannyboy@pobox.com>dannyboy
>>To: <mailto:speakup@braille.uwo.ca>speakup
>>Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 5:46 PM
>>Subject: location of cdrom
>>
>>My floppy is /dev/fd0 and the hard drive's linux is on /dev/hda5.  How is 
>>a cdrom accessed with linux?  Do I need to mount that drive?  Is there a 
>>way to fix it so I do not have to mount the floppy after logging on all 
>>the time?

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Re: location of cdrom

[Thomas Ward]

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High, you would want to load it in your fstab. Seams to me Debian has it in /etc/fstab.
Note, NTFS file systems are read only, and at last I've checked can't be written to.
Anyway, I think your rc.local file is most likely /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
One thing about Linux sometimes the files are in the same place, and sometimes not.


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Re: location of cdrom

[Geoff Shang]

On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, dannyboy wrote:

> My floppy is /dev/fd0 and the hard drive's linux is on /dev/hda5.  How is
> a cdrom accessed with linux?  Do I need to mount that drive?  Is there a
> way to fix it so I do not have to mount the floppy after logging on all
> the time?

To answer your auto-mounting question, you place an entry in /etc/fstab.
This will also allow you to type for example:

mount /floppy

Here is my floppy drive's entry in my fstab:

/dev/fd0  /floppy msdos defaults,noauto 0 0

the noauto tells linux not to mount it automatically.  If you want it to
mount automatically, remove the noauto specification.  Keep in mind however
that you may not have a floppy disk in the drive and I don't know what
happens if it tries to automatically mount a disk that's not there.

?For more info on fstab,type 'man fstab'.

Geoff.

Re: location of cdrom

[Shaun Oliver]

it'll just complain about not having a disk in the drive and refuse to
mount
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Geoff Shang wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, dannyboy wrote:
> 
> > My floppy is /dev/fd0 and the hard drive's linux is on /dev/hda5.  How is
> > a cdrom accessed with linux?  Do I need to mount that drive?  Is there a
> > way to fix it so I do not have to mount the floppy after logging on all
> > the time?
> 
> To answer your auto-mounting question, you place an entry in /etc/fstab.
> This will also allow you to type for example:
> 
> mount /floppy
> 
> Here is my floppy drive's entry in my fstab:
> 
> /dev/fd0  /floppy msdos defaults,noauto 0 0
> 
> the noauto tells linux not to mount it automatically.  If you want it to
> mount automatically, remove the noauto specification.  Keep in mind however
> that you may not have a floppy disk in the drive and I don't know what
> happens if it tries to automatically mount a disk that's not there.
> 
> ?For more info on fstab,type 'man fstab'.
> 
> Geoff.
> 
> 
> 
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